Western Sahara is about 1.7 times smaller than Morocco.

Morocco is approximately 446,550 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 59.57% the size of Morocco. Meanwhile, the population of Morocco is ~36.7 million people (36.1 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of Morocco vs. Western Sahara uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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